Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Georgia
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Throughout the world, monitoring surveys produce count data that are used to provide essential information for understanding, restoring, and managing natural populations. Indicator species are typically monitored to assess changes in their status or distribution (e.g., to evaluate the effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on the spatio-temporal dynamics of populations). Initially, this project will involve discussing management or monitoring situations with partner agencies. Specifically, this research project will involve analysis of priority data as identified by the US FWS. An overarching research goal for this project is to advance time-series analysis for monitoring of important indicator species.